OPM Releases Additional Hiring Freeze Guidance
The Office of Personnel Management has provided an extensive list of questions and answers with additional guidance about the hiring freeze.
The Office of Personnel Management has provided an extensive list of questions and answers with additional guidance about the hiring freeze.
What changes are likely to occur to your pay and benefits? These are some proposed changes federal workers might see under a new administration based on what we know today.
President Trump’s new Executive Order focuses on preventing violence against law enforcement officers, but leaves out other government employees.
A resolution recently introduced in the Senate pledges to support the federal workforce with “five fights for federal employees.”
The Office of Government Ethics experienced a high volume of traffic late last week which temporarily crippled its website. The surge may have been caused by allegations that Kellyanne Conway violated federal ethics regulations.
A new bill contains one sentence: “The Department of Education shall terminate on December 31, 2018.”
The Office of Government Ethics has said that disciplinary action against Kellyanne Conway appears to be warranted for statements she made which appear to violate her position as a federal employee.
The Trump administration has said it wants to make cuts to the overall size of the federal workforce, however, the author says that that this may be harder to do than it would seem on the surface.
Legislation has been introduced in Congress to require federal agencies to return all fines, fees, penalties, and other unappropriated funds that they collect to the Treasury.
The Office of Special Counsel has received numerous questions from federal employees about a possible candidate Trump in the 2020 election. The agency has provided a memo with Hatch Act guidance in the interim.